US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Roller holding unit, cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,407, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Roller holding unit, cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takatoshi Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroki Shimizu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yusuke Atsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller member, a bearing member supporting a shaft portion of the roller member and movable in a first direction perpendicular to a rotation axis of the shaft portion, a first biasing member for biasing the bearing member in the first direction, a first regulating member regulating movement of the bearing member from a first position in the first direction, a separat...